Cheques
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Deed currency consists of sight deposits at banks on which transactions can be performed with the use of cheques, as a way of circulating bank currency. The origin of the cheque is somewhat controversial: some specialists say that the Romans invented the cheque around 352 BC, while others consider them to have been created in Holland in the 16th century. It is believed that the first cheques printed in England by Lawrence Childs, the first banker in the modern sense, date from 1762. The first country to legislate on the cheque was France, with the Law of 14th June 1865. The Museum has a collection of cheques from a range of banking institutions, including an example from the Cupertino de Miranda & Irmão Banking House, founded in 1919, in Oporto. This gave rise to the Cupertino de Miranda & Companhia Banking House, founded by Artur Cupertino de Miranda, which later became the Banco Português do Atlântico, in 1942.
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